larcher
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A 80 pound cat discovered in 2010. Neofelis diardi
No hurry, perhaps on the hunting list of your grand-grand-grand children????????
Borneo leopard
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Rockdoc
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Thank you Larcher.
Funny how they can "discover" a new species of Leopard in 2007.
In 2010 I saw a black one, similar size to this, maybe a little bigger, near the central Kalimantan border in East Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo). The locals call them panther or simply cat.
I have travelled quite a bit there and Central Borneo. Dyaks know all about these. Townsfolk not so much!
I saw it on a logging trail in the mountains, at 10am. Never even thought to lift my camera off my lap and take a photograph.
I had stayed in the house of one of our Dyak guides the night before. Lots of Rusa Deer antlers on the walls!
Cheers,
Chris
Edited by Rockdoc (30/06/15 06:41 PM)
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kuduae
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"discovered" is an exaggeration, as the Sunda Clouded Leopard was first described and classified by Cuvier in 1823. But until 2006 it was thought to be merely a subspecies of the Asian Clouded Leopard, neofelis nebulosa, and called neofelis nebulosa diardi. In 2006, by DNA and other tests, it was merely discovered that it is a different species of his own. So it was reclassified from a subspecies to the species neofelis diardi. The Sunda Clouded Leopard lives not only in Borneo, but in Sumatra too.
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NitroX
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Is the cat in the video an immature individual or is the species normally smaller? Thanks.
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DarylS
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The thick legs & large feet seem to indicate an immature animal.
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larcher
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Rockdoc
You plainly expose it, an animal that You saw as umpteenth people do. And abracadabra a passing foreigner discovers it.
What's rejoicing is that when greenies turn us mad with disapperaing species, new ones emerge.
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